The Workers’ COP26
While world leaders met in Glasgow to dither and dive from taking effective action against climate catastrophe, trade unionists from across the globe met to discuss a future of justice and dignity for workers.
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As I Please: Labour’s Losing Road
When it comes to the issues impacting working people, Keir Starmer’s voice isn’t ‘failing to cut through’ — it’s absent entirely.
The Forever War Against Corbyn
Every day brings new reason to be furious at Tory rule. But little of this anger gets reflected by Labour MPs.
Why Football Fans Need Their Own Unions
Last year's Super League debacle showed just how far football's elite is prepared to go to steal the game from the communities that built it – it's time that supporters organised to ensure that can't happen.
The Labour Right’s Bookie Boys
As the gambling industry preys on millions of vulnerable people for profit, it can be comforted in the knowledge that it will always have one friend it can rely on: the Labour right.
Socialism Is Freedom
Freedom under capitalism is the ‘freedom’ to exploit or be exploited. Real freedom is the absence of all barriers that prevent people from living life to the fullest — the socialist movement fights for this kind of world.
Regulating the Night
The late Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony is a landmark book on how capitalism created the modern heterosexual family.
A Letter from Zatoka
The town of Zatoka, in southern Ukraine near the Romanian border, has grown into a private, chaotic seaside utopia, outlasting several states. How much longer can it last?
Invented Traditions
Ben Wheatley’s 'In the Earth' uses the contemporary setting of the pandemic to play with some increasingly familiar imagery of folk horror and hauntology.
Travels in Inner Space
The short stories of the Japanese feminist and science fiction writer Izumi Suzuki have an eerie correspondence to the world of the present day.
Smells Like World Spirit
A newly translated book tells the fascinating interwoven histories of two perfumes with a shared origin, but what does it take to write the history of smell?